Schoening arranged the encounter with someone he believed to be a teenage girl during a chat session on a popular Internet instant messenger, according to a police report.

“Schoening stated early on in the conversation that he might be willing to drive to Van Buren to see me, and later on in the chat, mentioned wanting to have sex with what he thought was a 15-year-old female,” the undercover detective stated in the report.

Inside the interview room of the Police Department, Schoening admitted that “he drove to Van Buren to have sex with what he thought was a 15-year-old female,” according to the report.

“Schoening stated that he had no other excuse of why he did this except that he made a bad decision,” the undercover detective stated in the report.